Darth Maul's Original Miniseries Foreshadowed His Clone Wars Changes
Fan-favorite villain Darth Maul was significantly reimagined in the Star Wars canon in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, though these changes were strangely foreshadowed in a Legends comic series. Darth Maul captivated viewers in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, challenging the Jedi in an iconic duel on Naboo before Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi seemingly killed him. The 2008 animated series The Clone Warsbegan before everything in the Expanded Universe was rebranded as non-canon Legends, but it has been established to be canon. The series rewrites Darth Maul and ties him to lore found in his Legend-era comic miniseries, Star Wars: Darth Maul, by Ron Marz and Jan Duursema.
Since the Legends version of Darth Maul died in The Phantom Menace, his characterization came from stories set before his live-action debut. In these Legends stories, Maul is a Zabrak from Iridonia who was taken from his family by Palpatine, who raised and trained him as a Sith Lord, despite being Darth Plagueis’ apprentice at the time. While Sith Lords sought to rule the galaxy through Machiavellian leadership and shaping history from the shadows, Maul focused more on the lethal fighting abilities of Sith Lords, becoming the loyal assassin of Palpatine.
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In The Clone Wars Maul was rewritten to be a member of a canon-exclusive species, the Dathomirians, who came from a significantly reimagined version of Dathomir rather than Iridonia. Maul also survived his bisection in The Phantom Menace, resurfacing in the Clone Wars to become a disruptive third party in the conflict, establishing the Shadow Collective by taking over and combining criminal organizations like the Black Sun and
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